Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1911 — Graft From Dead to Living [ARTICLE]

Graft From Dead to Living

Remarkable Experiment* of German Surgeons Have Proved Highly Successful—Two Case*. Berllng.—After American surgeons had begun to graft skin, muscles and bones from animal* on human bodies German surgeons undertook to implant parts taken from dead bodies into living men. Doctor Kuttner, professor of the University of Breslau, replaced in a wounded man a ball and socket joint and part of the femur taken from a body with success. The patient died a few months later of apoplexy and Professor Kuttner was thus able by means of postmortem examination to show in the surgical congress anatomical pieces proving that the part really taken from the dead body had received new life and attained natural articulation. Anoth-

er patient operated on in the same way presented himself a year after the operation. The surprising success of this new method of grafting parts of dead bodies was surpassed by a demonstration by Professor Lexer of the University of Jena, the inventor and propagator of new transplantation methode. He presented a female patient who had attempted suicide by drinking sulphuric acid and seriously Injured the oesophagus. Professor Lexer formed out of a piece of the intestine and external skin a new oesophagus, reaching from the stomach to the throat The assembly, which was composed of the most famous German qurgeons, was able to convince itself that the patient not only eats and drinks, but that the new oesophagus fulfills all the natural functions.